> Another discrepancy: when Richard achieves a record-breaking "Weissman score", the entirety of TechCrunch disrupt is in awe. In the real Valley, 95% of them w

> Another discrepancy: when Richard achieves a record-breaking "Weissman score", the entirety of TechCrunch disrupt is in awe. In the real Valley, 95% of them wouldn't know what a Weissman Score is. The technical literacy of the people in the show is actually much higher than in the real Silicon Valley. I was also surprised by that when watching the show, but I believe it was Gavin Belson who hyped this metric while presenting Nucleus at Tech Crunch. Most non technical people would have understood the Weissman score as "something that measures how good a compression is, the higher the better, and since G.B says 2.98 [or something] is record breaking, it must be the case.", so when Richard achieved a Weissman score of 5+, the same non technical people concluded that an algorithm with a score of 5+ must be totally revolutionary.